On 4/23/12 1:11 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> The reason is that /tools/bin/su cannot work for a normal user,
> because the setuid bit cannot be set at install in chapter 5 (if
> installing as user lfs). Hence the choice of naming it su-tools, to
> prevent it to run (and fail) if the lfs user (who has a PATH beginning
> with /tools/bin) runs su to become root.

Yep! Maybe it's OK to leave it as Matt has changed it (to /tools/bin/su) 
but add a large warning about it on the coreutils page.

JH

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